Crucifix 22 cm Pavona

Majolica crucifix hand-decorated with “Peacock feather eye” on a blue background.

The peacock in the Christian tradition is the symbol of the perfect, just and holy man. St. Augustine writes in his De Civitate Deli that the just man shines with virtue as the peacock shines with innumerable sparkles, and as the song of the peacock puts the snakes to flight, the just man puts the devil to flight with prayer. It is therefore no coincidence that in 15th-century painting angels of the Annunciation are observed with “the angelic pen“, that is the peacock feather decorated on the wings of the archangel.

Dimension of the Pavona crucifix: 14.5 x 22 cm, thickness 1 cm.